Field notes: Catalogue, journal, and species accounts, v507
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Barby 1959 Zonotrichia leucophrys 34. June 28 Kyse Bay, Comox, Vancouver Island, B.C. 637 was singing - - - from an oak between a weed field + a cultivated one. No sign of a mate bee. 638 was one of 2 birds that flushed from a thick weedy patch + flew to a small willow. As I approached an area where I heard a bird sing, a group flushed. 639 is me. There were at least 3 others, and at least 2 of them seemed adult; the other may have been a young bird. Heard singing after shooting 639. 640 is another of these birds. June 29 Oyster River, Vancouver Island, B.C., 642 sang the standard VI song from a dead fallen tree at the edge of a large cleared field. There was another bird present, 643 and 644 were together in a grassy area with a number of charred stumps and 1 0. Fir about 12 ft. tall. 654 flushed and sat on a fencepost. Macaulay Rd., 14 mi. N Courtenay, Vancouver Isl., B.C. 655 was in a small willow. Chased his mate but could not get it. 656 was in next territory, flushed several times. This cleared range land, with bracken + huckle seems to have a large population. 657 was in same trees as 655, probably the mate; a bird had led me in a large circle just before getting this. Heard birds all along the road (trip described in journal)